Here’s the deal. When you call cops about your mentally ill son, brother, father etc. it is because you feel frightened by their being out of control. You don’t want the cops riding in and killing them, you want someone to take him to the hospital and check him in.
Instead, the cops either tell you he is not a threat or sometimes something awful like this happens. We, the caretakers of society, stuck on our own with our mentally ill sons, brothers, fathers with little or no help from society or government need some practical treatment options for coping with the mentally ill. It is ridiculous that you have to wait until your mentally ill son, brother, father is ready to commit either suicide or murder before you can get some outside interest in your problem.
This poor dude was mentally ill. Cops only know how to handle criminals. Jails are being used to cope with mentally ill. That is a crime in itself. The criminal justice system is no better at dealing with the mentally ill than are we hapless caregivers.
Kinda like "schools" are essentially daycare centers, run by communists.
The problem is that when a mentally ill person is physically robust and threatening to others confinement is necessary to protect the rest of society.
We already have jails and they are suitable for this confinement.
And you are right -- I am placing more value on the lives of innocent normal people than on the mentally ill. I think this is morally correct.
The police were not trying to kill him, but when he is spitting they put the spit hood on him. It was an accident. If he had not been spitting, he would be alive today. How hard is it to not spit on the cops?